Green on Blue is not the war story Americans are accustomed to hearing. Its author, Elliott Ackerman, chose to narrate the book from the perspective of an Afghan teenager, explaining to HuffPost Live, “All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever’s telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.”
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Green on Blue, which has been called “harrowing, brutal, and utterly absorbing,” published this week. To find out about other books that shed new light on war, see our list of 50 women writers who discuss conflict, displacement and resilience.
